“there is a god in writing. a soft. roaring. unconditional. home of a god. who prays to me.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Many writers learned their craft and work ethic at a newspaper. I benefited from that. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
I like soccer and writing stories. I want to become a writer and continue acting. — Emily Osment Copy Share Image
I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals. — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is ever happy anywhere. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne.… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When people say they write for themselves, that's probably what they do. I will admit that I don't write for myself; I… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No, actually 'The Host' was totally a palate-cleanser for me. I wanted to do something a little bit different than romantic love.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
My grandfather died in the war, my family went through the war, and it affected my parents in really profound ways. I've… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
